In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself.

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.

The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

The difference between science and religion is that the former wishes to get rid of mysteries whereas the latter worships them.

Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability.

Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

The elephants are dancing on the graves of squeeling mice.

Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other ­people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic – is ever wasted.

There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.

I could never give relationship advice to anybody!

Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan.

In our spring-time every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded blades are getting ready to pierce the ground.

We're happy with what we've achieved. Every record we've made has furthered the growth of our line of success. It's never disappeared or gone backward: each record sells more, each tour is bigger.

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.

I've been on the floor and I've been heartbroken. I didn't know how I was going to stand up. But I just gave it time.

Just in case the world ends tomorrow," she said. "We might as well enjoy today.